Multipolarity is not a correct description anymore. Because “pole” means that other countries, minor countries gravitate towards you. And the main idea today for anybody, any country, bigger ones, smaller one, is not to be subordinated, not to be gravitated by force.
The collective West, the political West, is a world minority. The West will remain as it is, more or less unified, around the United States, but it’s not an example for the rest of the world, is rather very specific civilization, which will exist in those terms, but it will not be a model for anybody else.
What is it like to sit on stage with Putin? When did relations with the West go wrong? And what in the world is the “world majority”?
Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, took part in The Trialogue podcast by the Stimson Center.
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